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Let Us Draw Nigh! by Andrew Murray

The Way to a Life Abiding Continually in the Secret of God's Presence

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LET US DRA IV NIGH 51<br />

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X.—22. <strong>Let</strong> us draw near . . . our hearts sprinkled<br />

from an evil conscience.<br />

In verse 19 we had boldness through the blood<br />

of Jesus, as one of the four precious things<br />

prepared for us <strong>by</strong> God. It is that actual<br />

liberty or right which the blood of<br />

apart from any use we make of it.<br />

Jesus gives,<br />

Along with<br />

the opened sanctuary, and the living way, and<br />

the great Priest, the blood and our boldness in<br />

it is a heavenly reality waiting our faith and<br />

acceptance. Here the blood is mentioned a<br />

second time, and our being sprinkled with it<br />

as one of the things God asks of us. It is in<br />

the personal application and experience of the<br />

power of the blood we are to draw nigh. The<br />

sense of the cleansing of the heart in the<br />

blood may be, must be, an unbroken consciousness;<br />

so shall we abide continually in God's<br />

presence. This second mention of the blood<br />

is in accord with what we had in chap. ix. of

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